As I didn’t want to, for obvious reasons, cook a dial full of unknown glues, paints and metals in the family’s kitchen oven

IMO everybody ought to get themselves a cheap toaster oven and a PID controller for craft purposes.

My favorite example of how to lie with statistics:

“Of the 117 billion people who have ever lived, 8 billion of them are still alive. Therefore, the chance of dying is not 100% but rather only 93%.”

Doesn’t matter; I still get triggered by it every time anyway.

Why the removed does a survey need a loading screen with a progress bar?

Holy removed, people, some HTML with input fields and a submit button does not need to be this over engineered!

Much, much bigger deal than not letting the Earth warm enough to flood them in the first place.

Actually, that’s a feature that was common going all the way back to the very earliest image file formats: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indexed_color

It’d be easy enough to make the chart a plain old GIF or indexed PNG; the only non-trivial part is that you’d need add some code to the page it’s embedded in to swap out the color palette. (You could also make it an SVG and manipulate it even more easily using the DOM.)

Additionally it is much easier to just move to higher ground.

Yeah, because rebuilding most of the world’s major cities all at once is no big deal at all.

It’s not going to get that deep, or do so that fast.

I am thinking about buying some beachfront property near the Fall Line for my descendants to inherit, though.

IMO organizations should self-host their official communities. If you’re going to move, it ought to be to something like !openmw@lemmy.openmw.org.

In addition to the obvious benefits of having admin control/being able to avoid moderation drama imposed by others, it also means you could have more than one community: maybe !openmw for general discussion, plus !modding, !development, etc.

If Emacs keybindings are good enough to be the system default for Mac users, they should be good enough for anybody.

So “some other bastard system” it is, then.

That’s a shame; a GNU project should be consistently GNU-like (i.e. adopt Emacs key bindings).

What does “modern” mean? Emacs-like? Vim-like? Some other bastard system?

Yeah, and that’s a terrible, misguided thing to do.

The article perpetuates another myth:

And of course, you have dedicated software stores in many Linux distributions.

Repositories are not “stores!” Repositories maximize convenience of discovering and installing Free Software, while “stores” exist to extract money from chumps for enremovedtified, proprietary crap. There’s a huge removeding difference.

Just run Linux straight off the installation media in what’s usually called something similar to a “live environment” until you’re sure it works.

Otherwise, installing Windows is somewhat more difficult than installing an “easy” Linux distro (e.g. Mint) because you’ll have to deal with “activation” bullremoved and updated/manufacturer-provided drivers. Unless your computer comes with a computer-specific recovery disk or recovery partition (that you didn’t delete when installing Linux), in which case it’s easier.

If you want a high-strength part and you have carbon fiber and a 3D printer, what you want to do is 3D print a mold and then apply the carbon fiber and resin to it by hand (either laminated or “forged”).

Does it work for Raspberry Pi images?

The DMCA safe-harbor provision requires them to act on takedown claims with little-to-no vetting. In contrast, counter-claims are made under penalty of perjury. It’s a deliberately unfair system that puts the person who wants to censor the content at a huge advantage over the person who wants to keep using it.

Are you seeing these pro-meta articles on Lemmy or on Mastodon? I haven’t seen them, or much negative effect yet from Threads in general despite my instance being federated, but I assume that’s because I only use Lemmy.

(For the record, I would prefer if lemmy.world and mastodon.world defederated regardless.)